Ooooooooo!
Also, new kyton! Yay!
That cover is excellent.
Nice cover, not what I expected for Nidal, but pleasantly surprised.
One person said it was a shadow dragon but true dragon don't stand on two legs so what kind of dragon is it?
Who says they can't.
Fangs Of War I believe has a dragon that prefers to stand up when fighting (although I might be misremembering that).
Well looking at the art of the shadow dragon in B2 the horns and tail design match so it is a shadow dragon or at least part shadow dragon. Though it still looks weird to me.
Younger dragons tend to sometimes stand on two legs on art, I assume they are too heavy to do that when they get large enough(though again depends on artist)
The dragon on the cover looks pretty small for an Umbral Dragon to me, so it probably is a juvenile.
Guess he shouldn't have gone on to old man Lem's lawn. :-)
The dragon is great, but a new kyton is even BETTER! :)
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Nice Umbral dragon there! It's the land of shadows after all.
Umbral dragon indeed. Nice.
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"Dark Druids"?The Uskwood Druid Order ;)
Legendary Villains: Dark Druids seems relevant here. Also search Boomer's tumbler archive for uskwood. I suggest to start with this relevant NPC.
I applaud inclusion of the gold wyrm from Dragons Revisited.
And I hope we get something on the activity of worshippers of Desna in Nidal. Liane's Nightglass had some hints on that, but sadly it was never picked up later in the novels.
maybe we'll get a mention of shadowgarms?
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I'm curious, how many tidbits of obscure lore is in this book?
Like, in Council of Thieves "Treasures of Pathfinder" article, its mentioned that Pathfinder named Adellos Mayne has ongoing expedition in Nidal which's goal is to find "The Mute Metropolis". That is only mention of that place I've heard of, is something like that mentioned here?
the Mute Metropolis? sounds like it would be protected by races of voiceless abominations from the Plane of Shadows.
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Or Mimes;)
And maybe we'll see the real master of Zon-Kuthon... the Smurfs!!!
is a suffragan kyton based on the assumed root word, suffragette???
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is a suffragan kyton based on the assumed root word, suffragette???
Suffragan "assisting or auxiliary to, as applied to any bishop in relation to the archbishop or metropolitan who is his superior, or as applied to an assistant or subsidiary bishop who performs episcopal functions in a diocese but has no ordinary jurisdiction, as, in the Church of England, a bishop consecrated to assist the ordinary bishop of a see in part of his diocese."
All the kyton types are Christian church titles.
except Termagant
Yeah I like colors other than black.
There’s been a holdup in shipping this month’s subscriptions (and preorders). The system appears to be doing screwy things calculating people’s shipping costs.
Once that glitch is sorted, they’ll move on to the fulfilment stage.
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This is a good one, but keeping an eye on Diego's posts is probably the easiest way.
Is there a thread somewhere where they're updating on that? It would be slightly better than refreshing my order obsessively, lol.
This is the thread for advising the status of April subscriptions
There have been lots of queries about it, so there’s various threads in the CS forum that will probably shed some light. That linked one is where I’d look though. I’m sure they’ll post something there once it’s resolved.
Looks like you can spare your refresh key until Monday at the earliest.
They're pretty sure they've found the problem, so hopefully things will start chugging along next week. :)
I can wait. Waiting doesn't kill people. It just makes them very annoyed.
Also hoping for some insights into Kytons. ;)
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There were just a few pieces of art that I had to quickly scroll past. It was well done, I'll just take time to appreciate the more disturbing images later.
I really like the history section, both for the origins of the dark pact and for the more recent relations with Cheliax.
Anything on the Joyful Things in here?
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Anything on the Joyful Things in here?
I haven't read the book in detail yet, but I can confirm that the joyful thing is featured in the book's bestiary section.
Any chance we can get a LISTING of said bestiary from this book?
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-Hive brute (CR 8 NE aberration), another hive creature
-Joyful thing (CR 6 LE outsider)
-Suffragan kyton (CR 5 LE outsider), creature with spiked chains for arms and no lower body
-Shadow animal (example given is lion)
-Shadow fern (CR 4 N plant), plant found in the Uskwood
-Smokeshade (CR 2 NE aberration), amorphous creatures made from semisolid smoke and shadow, can become familiars